Size.

Have you ever sat down at your Tv playing your favorite Video game, and your just messing around and then all of the sudden you come to the end of the designed game the invisible force field were nothing exists past it… doesn’t that ever bother you? have you ever been like, “I want to go farther, there should be more to this then what is here!!” What if the universe was just out past the last planet? and you could go out and hit the edge? Wouldn’t you hate it? if all the stars out there were really just graphics composed of pixels to make you think that they are RAGING BALLS OF FIRE? How disappointing that would be. Wouldn’t you must rather have a never ending universe that no matter how fast we travel, no matter how long we live, and no matter how big we make our telescope, we never can exhaust the beauty of it?  

At our young adults group on wednesday night we watched a video of a speaker talking about the indescribable-ness of God. He used astronomy to put this into perspective… it was way too detailed for me to try and explain it to you here, but essentially God holds the universe in his hand, and just our galaxy alone is so immense that IF we traveled at the speed of LIGHT (light can travel around the world 7x in one second) it would take us 100,000 years to cross it. I DARE YOU… look up some pictures of the milky-way galaxy, do some research… see how small earth really is.

Neil Armstrong said it this way on his apollo 11 mission, ”I put my thumb up to the window and blotted out the earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”   

Psalms 8:3-4 Says, When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him?

I mean to say, that if the universe were the size of the sun, then we would be smaller than the most microscopic organism known to mankind! WE ARE TINY.  Its so easy to say that God has the whole world in his hand, and picture a man holding a ball, about the size of a bowling ball standing there…just chilling. In the eyes of God earth is a speck that seemingly we just happen to live on, and He knows are NAME? The bible even says he knows the number of hairs on our heads. I’m just totally blown away by that.

So, do you still think your big? ARE YOU SURE?… 

Earth is but a dot obscured in a beam of scattered sunlight (pinpointed by artificial blue circle). Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

If that doesn’t just put into perspective Gods amazing love for us, that he would make all this just so we could enjoy it.

I guess the neatest part of it is were all here on earth building our telescopes that see BILLIONS of miles away, and God is holding our universe in his hand saying, “You’re going to have to do a lot better then that!!

Jeffery.